No Longer a Coin Toss: Less than Half of Marriages Predicted to End in Divorce
The ACS projection is useful for understanding today’s divorce risks, but it comes with an important caveat: it assumes that current conditions will hold steady into the future. My best estimate is that about 42% of first marriages today will eventually end in divorce if current patterns persist. SIPP data tend to underreport divorces, with high levels of missing data and widespread imputation of divorce dates. So divorce estimates from SIPP should be interpreted with caution.
Why I Quit Watching Porn for My Family and Myself
“Last week, I celebrated my 500th day free from porn. Even though I have been in recovery for two years, it took most of the first year of working through my baggage and getting the tools I needed to find freedom.”
Faith, virtue, and family will still matter most in our technological future
As AI and automation advance, mimicking our speech and style, it can’t recreate the love, sacrifice, and moral strength that define a truly human life.
REPORT: Suicide among elderly has quadrupled in Switzerland
Recently reported data reveal that the suicide rate among older people in Switzerland has quadrupled over the last 25 years, due to the country’s pro-assisted death laws. Swiss public broadcaster, RTS, released the report which shows an astonishing rise in suicide due to Switzerland’s assisted suicide and euthanasia laws: since 1998, rates of suicide among those age 85 and older have quadrupled, while rates for those age 65-84 have doubled.
Alberta’s Danielle Smith defends ban on explicit books in schools, says pornography ‘a problem’
Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government is going forward with plans to remove sexually explicit books, including many with pro-LGBT and pedophilic content, from all schools.
PEPFAR Was Used to Promote Abortion in Africa, Overturn Pro-Life Laws
African religious leaders are setting the record straight, even if elite evangelicals in the U.S. are obscuring it. “As you now seek to reauthorize PEPFAR funding,” dozens of the nations’ representatives wrote to Congress in 2023, “we want to express our concerns and suspicions that this funding is supporting so-called family planning and reproductive health principles and practices, including abortion, that violate our core beliefs concerning life, family, and religion. We ask that PEPFAR remain true to its original mission and respect our norms, traditions, and values,” they implored.
Late-term abortionists and industry insiders admit to the dangers of induction abortion
According to testimony from abortion providers, outpatient abortion facilities are likely ill-equipped (compared to hospitals) to handle life threatening complications that may occur during induction abortions committed later in pregnancy.
Big Fertility Needs To Be Honest With Patients About The Consequences Of IVF
Families deserve to know what they are consenting to, and the public deserves insight into an industry that has significant ethical issues but is currently operating with little oversight.
5 killed during attack on Bible study in Nigeria; 110 others kidnapped in recent months
“This is the present predicament of most communities within Kajuru and Kachia Local Council Areas in southern part of Kaduna state,” resident Happiness Daniel told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News in a text message. “We constantly live in fear every day. We can’t sleep in our homes and we can’t go to farms.”
UN Experts Duel Over ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ at Human Rights Council
At the latest session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which just concluded last week, delegates dialogued with two U.N. human rights experts who have written reports focused on gender ideology. These two experts’ views on “gender questions,” and their recommendations for how countries can protect human rights, reflected radically different views on society and “gender.”
Civil Society Groups Ask the UN to End Demand for Prostitution
At a recent UN meeting on human trafficking, civil society groups asked UN member states to recognize prostitution and pornography as key drivers of trafficking. The groups challenged the UN narrative that prostitution can be a dignified profession, referring to it as an inherently exploitative system that hurts women. UN agencies stayed silent on the need to end the demand for prostitution.